English 4F70

• Some characteristics of contemporary theory
• Contemporary Literary Theory (article)
• A checklist of theoretical concerns
• Some Factors Affecting/Effecting the Reading of Texts
• The differences between Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and 'theory itself'
• The Problem of Meaning

• Elements of Structuralism
• Jakobson's Communication Model 
• Summary of Genette, "Structuralism and Literary Criticism"

• The Interpretive Turn 
• Some Principles of Phenomenological Hermeneutics
• Reader-Response: Various Positions

• Some Poststructuralist Assumptions
• An Essay on Barthes' "From Work to Text" by Lisa Smith
• Deconstruction: Some Assumptions
• notes on différance
• Synopsis of J. Hillis Miller, "The Critic as Host"
• Examples of deconstructive reading by J. Lye:
  • love poem
  • Impediments
  • Time is the only just power
• The 'death of the author' as an instance of theory

• Brief ideology page prepared for my Year 1 & 2 students
• Some Issues in Postcolonial Theory
• An Ideological Reading of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
• Bakhtin on Language
• A summary of Foucault, "The Discourse on Language"
• Synopsis of Foucault,"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History"

• Psychoanalytic Theory

• Close Reading vs Cultural Studies
• Some Attributes of Modernist Literature (from my ENGL 2F55 site)
• Some Cultural Forces Driving Modernism (from my ENGL 2F55 site)
• Some Attributes of Post-Modernist Literature (from my ENGL 2F55 site)
• Nation article on university presses

• The John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (limited access)
• David Miall's Reader Response site
• Russ Hunt: On Literary Reading (new address)
• Dino Fellugi's Undergraduate Guide to Literary Theory
• Introduction to Modern Literary Theory (Kristi Siegel)
• Mary Klages' Modern Criticial Thought
• Literature and Social Change Tony Christini
• Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism Barry Laga, Mesa State College
• A Brief History of Literary Theory by Chris Lang, at Xenos Christian Fellowship.
• Postcolonial Studies Page at Emory University
• On the Teaching of Literary Theory -- article by D. G. Myers
• Bakhtin Links at the Bakhtin Center (U. of Sheffield)
• Culture Machine: Generating Research in Theory and Culture (on-line journal)
• Critical Approaches to Culture, Communications and Hypermedia by Ron Burnett, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
• Sites of Significance for Semiotics

Theory Resource Pages

• Contemporary Theory, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought at Colorado-Denver
• Voice of the Shuttle Literary Theory page Alan Liu, UCSB
• Cultural Studies and Critical Theory -- database of primary texts, well structured
• Literary Resources--Theory (Jack Lynch)
• Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center